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Trust: The Tacit Demand
Inbunden, 1997
1098 kr
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Even though several branches of philosophy meet in the notion of trust, it has nevertheless been largely neglected by mainstream philosophy. Arguably, most existing analyses fail to give a just account of the reality of human experience. The author believes that this is not a coincidence but …
Reflective Equilibrium
Essays in Honour of Robert Heeger
Av Wibren van der Burg, Theo van Willigenburg
Inbunden, 1998
1098 kr
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The basic idea of reflective equilibrium, as a method for theory construction and decision-making in ethics, is that we should bring together a broad variety of moral and non-moral beliefs and, through a process of critical scrutiny and mutual adjustment, combine these into one coherent belief …
Character, Liberty and Law
Kantian Essays in Theory and Practice
Av J.G. Murphy
Inbunden, 1998
1098 kr
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Jeffrie G. Murphy's third collection of essays further pursues the topics of punishment and retribution that were explored in his two previous collections: "Retribution, Justice and Therapy" and "Retribution Reconsidered". Murphy now explores these topics in the light of reflections on issues that …
Reasons for Action
Toward a Normative Theory and Meta-Level Criteria
Av B.C. Postow
Inbunden, 1999
1098 kr
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What, ultimately, is there good reason to do? Proposing a unified theory of agent-dependent reasons and agent-independent reasons, this work holds that principles which assign reasons to agents are valid if and only if they make maximally good sense in the light of relevant data and background …
Ethics after Anscombe
Post “Modern Moral Philosophy”
Av D.J. Richter
Inbunden, 1999
1098 kr
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How, if at all, can we do moral philosophy in the light of the radical critique made by Elizabeth Anscombe in "Modem Moral Philosophy"? Among the principal theses of this essay is that ethical thinking (that of philosophers and others) suffers from a widespread appeal to incoherent uses of terms …
Good Life as a Public Good
Inbunden, 2000
1098 kr
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According to the neutrality thesis, in designing state policies governments should not allow themselves to be informed by any particular conceptions of the good life. The aim of this book is to contribute to the debate about this thesis in two specific ways. Firstly, the limits of acceptable state …
Moral Responsibility and Ontology
Inbunden, 2000
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Ton van den Beld This book is one of the results of the international conference on Moral Responsibility and Ontology, which was held at Utrecht University in 1 June 1998. It contains a selection of the revised versions of the papers discussed at the conference. The theme is in need of some …
Imperceptible Harms and Benefits
Av M.J. Almeida
Inbunden, 2000
552 kr
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The papers collected here represent the most recent work on a much neglected problem in practical reasoning. It is the problem of imperceptible harms and benefits. It is perhaps better to characterize the problem as a collection of puzzles or paradoxes, since those who deny the existence (or …
Moral Beliefs and Moral Theory
Inbunden, 2002
1647 kr
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This text defends moral cognitivism with a new approach. The author maintains that the truth of moral judgments is determined in fundamentally the same way as is the truth of non-moral judgments, in other words by appeal to truth conditions which are incorporated in beliefs held in common by a wide …
Personal and Moral Identity
Av A.W. Musschenga, A.W. van Haaften m. fl.
Inbunden, 2002
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The subject of personal and moral identity is at the centre of interest, not only of academic research within disciplines such as philosophy and psychology, but also of everyday thinking. This is why the Neth erlands School for Research in Practical Philosophy and the Institute for Ethics of the …
Emotion, Truth and Meaning
In Defense of Ayer and Stevenson
Av C. Wilks
Inbunden, 2002
1101 kr
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The aim of this book is to defend the Emotive Theory of Ethics, and, in particular, the versions of that theory proposed by A. J. Ayer in Language, Truth and Logic (1936) and by C. L. Stevenson in Ethics and Language (1944). For those readers who are familiar with the conventional history of …
Different Faces of Autonomy
Patient Autonomy in Ethical Theory and Hospital Practice
Av M. Schermer
Inbunden, 2002
1133 kr
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Patient autonomy is a much discussed and debated subject in medical ethics, as well as in healthcare practice, medical law, and healthcare policy. This book provides a detailed and nuanced analysis of both the concept of autonomy and the principle of respect for autonomy, in an accessible style. …
Time and Ethics
Essays at the Intersection
Av H. L. Dyke
Inbunden, 2003
1101 kr
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Ethics seeks answers to questions about the moral status of human actions and human lives. Actions and lives are temporal things. Thus, one would think that answers to ethical questions should take some account of their temporal features. And yet, while a number of authors have drawn attention to …
Repugnant Conclusion
Essays on Population Ethics
Av J. Ryberg, Jesper Ryberg m. fl.
Inbunden, 2005
1101 kr
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Most people (including moral philosophers), when faced with the fact that some of their cherished moral views lead up to the Repugnant Conclusion, feel that they have to revise their moral outlook. However, it is a moot question as to how this should be done. It is not an easy thing to say how one …
Ethics of Proportionate Punishment
A Critical Investigation
Inbunden, 2005
1538 kr
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The philosophical discussion of state punishment is well on in years. In contrast with a large number of ethical problems which are concerned with right and wrong in relation to a narrowly specified area of human life and practice and which hav- at least since the early 70’s - been regarded as a …
Recent Work on Intrinsic Value
Av Toni Rønnow-Rasmussen, Michael J. Zimmerman
Inbunden, 2005
1647 kr
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Recent Work on Intrinsic Value brings together for the first time many of the most important and influential writings on the topic of intrinsic value to have appeared in the last half-century. During this period, inquiry into the nature of intrinsic value has intensified to such an extent that at …
Action and Responsibility
Inbunden, 2005
1101 kr
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This book is an exploration of what it takes for an event to count as an action. I first became interested in this topic nearly a decade ago while working on a different topic. I kept coming across philosophers making claims about the nature of action that seemed false or at least dubious to me. As …
Transforming Unjust Structures
The Capability Approach
Av Severine Deneulin, Mathias Nebel m. fl.
Inbunden, 2006
1101 kr
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SÉVERINE DENEULIN, MATHIAS NEBEL AND NICHOLAS SAGOVSKY TRANSFORMING UNJUST STRUCTURES The Capability Approach THE CAPABILITY APPROACH Structural injustice has traditionally been the concern of two major academic disciplines: economics and philosophy. The dominant model of economics has long been …
Freedom and Value
Freedom’s Influence on Welfare and Worldly Value
Inbunden, 2008
1101 kr
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Freedom of the sort implicated in acting freely or with free will is important to the truth of different sorts of moral judgment, such as judgments of moral responsibility and those of moral obligation. Little thought, however, has been invested into whether appraisals of good or evil presuppose …
Radical Passivity
Rethinking Ethical Agency in Levinas
Inbunden, 2009
1101 kr
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Levinas’s ethical metaphysics is essentially a meditation on what makes ethical agency possible – that which enables us to act in the interest of another, to put the well-being of another before our own. This line of questioning found its inception in and drew its inspiration from the mass …
Towards a Sustainable Philosophy of Endurance Sport
Cycling for Life
Av Ron Welters
Inbunden, 2019
555 kr
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This book provides new perspectives on endurance sport and how it contributes to a good and sustainable life in times of climate change, ecological disruption and inconvenient truths. It builds on a continental philosophical tradition, i.e. the philosophy of among others Peter Sloterdijk, but also …
Time, Life & Memory
Bergson and Contemporary Science
Inbunden, 2020
938 kr
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This book revitalizes the relevance of the ideas of Henri Bergson (1859-1941) for current developments in exact sciences. It explores the relevance of Bergson's thought for contemporary philosophical reflections on three of the most important scientific research areas of today, namely physics, the …
Time, Life & Memory
Bergson and Contemporary Science
Häftad, 2021
938 kr
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This book revitalizes the relevance of the ideas of Henri Bergson (1859-1941) for current developments in exact sciences. It explores the relevance of Bergson's thought for contemporary philosophical reflections on three of the most important scientific research areas of today, namely physics, the …
Ways of Being Bound: Perspectives from post-Kantian Philosophy and Relational Sociology
Av Patricio A. Fernández, Alejandro Néstor García Martínez m. fl.
Inbunden, 2022
1321 kr
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This book addresses the topic of 'being bound' from a philosophical and a sociological perspective. It examines several ways in which we are bound. We are bound to acknowledge the truth and to follow laws; we are bound to others and to the world. Who we are is partly defined by those bonds, …
Ways of Being Bound: Perspectives from post-Kantian Philosophy and Relational Sociology
Av Patricio A. Fernández, Alejandro Néstor García Martínez m. fl.
Häftad, 2023
1321 kr
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This book addresses the topic of 'being bound' from a philosophical and a sociological perspective. It examines several ways in which we are bound. We are bound to acknowledge the truth and to follow laws; we are bound to others and to the world. Who we are is partly defined by those bonds, …
Putting Responsible Research and Innovation into Practice
A Multi-Stakeholder Approach
Av Vincent Blok
Inbunden, 2022
555 kr
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This Open Access book builds on the experiences of one of the largest European projects in the domain of responsible Research and Innovation: NewHoRRIzon. It highlights the potential of and opportunity in responsible R&I to conduct innovation in a socially responsible way. Employing the methodology …
Putting Responsible Research and Innovation into Practice
A Multi-Stakeholder Approach
Av Vincent Blok
Häftad, 2022
445 kr
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This Open Access book builds on the experiences of one of the largest European projects in the domain of responsible Research and Innovation: NewHoRRIzon. It highlights the potential of and opportunity in responsible R&I to conduct innovation in a socially responsible way. Employing the methodology …
Ethical Reasoning in Forensic Science
Inbunden, 2024
609 kr
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This book explores the impact of ethical reasoning in forensic science and demonstrates that it is in fact a foundational skill required by those engaged in the field. Forensic science is viewed as a mechanism to aid the criminal justice system in finding truth, but failures within the field …
Ethical Reasoning in Forensic Science
Häftad, 2025
609 kr
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This book explores the impact of ethical reasoning in forensic science and demonstrates that it is in fact a foundational skill required by those engaged in the field. Forensic science is viewed as a mechanism to aid the criminal justice system in finding truth, but failures within the field …
How to Think about Progress
A Skeptic's Guide to Technology
Av Nicholas Agar, Stuart Whatley m. fl.
Inbunden, 2024
339 kr
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How to Think about Progress is an interdisciplinary work exploring whether optimistic claims about technology’s potential stand up to humanity’s most difficult challenges. Will technology solve the problems of climate change, pandemics, cancer, loneliness, unhappiness, and even death? The authors …
